Before, you may stop blood thinners as directed and get an MRI. During, you're under anesthesia in our surgery centers, and small samples are taken in about 30 minutes.
Key points
- After, expect mild soreness and some blood in urine or semen for days to weeks.
- Results usually take about a week.
When should I come in about this?
If “What to expect before, during and after a prostate biopsy” is the reason you are looking us up, call 678-344-8900 or book online and we will see you at our Sandy Springs Clinic & Surgery Center at 1450 S Johnson Ferry Road, or at our Decatur Clinic at 2711 Irvin Way. This is usually booked as a planned visit, not an emergency, unless you cannot pass urine or have heavy bleeding, which should go to an emergency department or 911. We will review the PSA trend, any MRI or biopsy already done, and, when staging would change the plan, PSMA or FDG PET/CT that Advanced Urology offers, then walk through active surveillance, surgery, or radiation as they apply to you. Bring a photo ID, insurance information if you carry it, the lab and scan reports, and a medicine list so the first conversation can stay on the actual results.
We would like to see you in Sandy Springs
Our Sandy Springs Clinic & Surgery Center at 1450 S Johnson Ferry Road, which has its own surgery center, and our Decatur Clinic at 2711 Irvin Way are both ready to welcome you. One number books either office: 678-344-8900.
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Further reading
- Read the full answer to this question on advancedurology.com
- Prostate cancer: Advanced Urology overview
How our Sandy Springs urologists think through this question
When someone brings this exact question into our Sandy Springs Clinic & Surgery Center, 1450 S Johnson Ferry Road, it gets a full hearing. Our Sandy Springs urologists give that question the time it deserves. In Sandy Springs our urologists sit with the story you bring, the tests already in hand, and what would actually change the plan, and then we talk about a procedure if one belongs in the discussion. When treatment comes up in Sandy Springs, we stay with what Advanced Urology already offers: the usual path of walking through the stage and then the options we already offer, which can include surgery, radiation, and, when it fits the case, HIFU. If a popular option is one we do not offer, we will tell you so at the Sandy Springs visit. These notes are here to get you ready; the Sandy Springs visit is where we fit the plan to you.
What a visit at Sandy Springs is usually like
The first appointment at our Sandy Springs Clinic & Surgery Center, 1450 S Johnson Ferry Road leaves room for you to tell the story in your own words. In that first conversation we ask how long the problem has lasted, what you have already tried, and which medicines you currently take. An exam is often part of that first Sandy Springs visit, and we walk through any urine study or scan before it happens. If a later procedure needs a surgery center, we will tell you whether it is scheduled here at 1450 S Johnson Ferry Road or at another Advanced Urology surgery center, and how to prepare. At the desk at our Sandy Springs Clinic & Surgery Center, 1450 S Johnson Ferry Road, please have a government-issued identification, insurance information if you carry it, and the names of the medicines you take; old records help, and we can see you even if the file is still coming together.
When to call our team at Sandy Springs about this
Call 678-344-8900 when the question you just read is the one on your mind, or when a test result named here has just arrived. We will get you on the Sandy Springs schedule, or you can use online booking, and we will tell you the earliest opening we can offer. Heavy bleeding, clots that stop you from urinating, a fever with pain in the side or back, or being unable to pass urine at all should be handled in an emergency department or by calling 911, rather than waiting for a routine slot at our Sandy Springs Clinic & Surgery Center, 1450 S Johnson Ferry Road.
A video from Advanced Urology that relates to this topic
If you would like to hear this topic explained by an Advanced Urology physician before you come to Sandy Springs, this official video is a useful place to start.
#020 - Decoding PSMA PET / CT for Prostate Cancer. Watch on YouTube Prostate Cancer Awareness Month by Marc Greenstein. Watch on YouTube
Other reading from Sandy Springs
What the video covers
On this Sandy Springs page the official video we link is titled #020 - Decoding PSMA PET / CT for Prostate Cancer. Topics noted in the public listing include Who This Episode Is For. Those short phrases come from the public YouTube description; we have not added quotes.
What the video covers
On this Sandy Springs page the official video we link is titled Prostate Cancer Awareness Month by Marc Greenstein. This Sandy Springs summary stays with that public title and does not add other claims.